Santa baby…

…you did not slip a sable under the tree for me. But it’s okay. I’m not into fur. The fact that you did leave a Wii for Miss Lenna made up for any lack of gifts for me. And the XBox 360 game you left for Matt? Perfect. Tricia is a little uncertain about her [...]

Busy. Lazy. Busy some more.

That pretty much sums up my life these days. I haven’t posted much because there hasn’t been much going on around here. We’ve hit another one of those pesky boring patches here in Stepford. I think everyone’s gearing up for next week’s holiday, and so they’re all too busy to provide me with sales parties [...]

Oh, Matty boy…

…the pipes, the pipes are calling.
Oh. Sorry. I might be feeling a wee bit o’ nostalgia tonight. (Also? I might be feeling like I’m Irish even though it’s actually Bill who’s Irish. I’ll get over it.) My son, my very first baby, turned 14 today. The boy is a mere two years away from driving. [...]

I’m working on it!!

Okay, kids, we have to talk about this WwT thing. We really do. First, to judge by sheer traffic, it’s one of the most popular features on this blog. I’m not one to go much by traffic numbers, but I am one to give the people person who reads this blog what they she wants. [...]

Awards that aren’t really awards.

Okay, I get that we all want our kids to feel good about participating in an activity. I get that we all want our children to feel validated and worthwhile. I want that for my kids just like everyone else does, and I do my best to ensure that they know that they’re valid and [...]

And they call it…

…puppy looooove. Oh, Matt. :sigh: He’s getting phone calls from a girl. Oh, this isn’t his first “girlfriend” — that was a girl named Ashley back in Rock Hill, but she never actually called our house, so I never had to really accept the reality of it. But now, there’s a girl. Calling our house. [...]

Wednesdays with Tricia

I know, I know. Late again. Worse, I have no super-cute video of her cruising or waving or anything. But look, people, we need to talk about this whole WwT thing. The kid is mobile, and she’s fast. She can dodge a camera like you wouldn’t believe. Plus, she saves the cuteness for when the [...]

Oh, Tricia, my baby.

So, I’ve noticed something about my littlest rat. She’s sneaky. Very, very sneaky. Like for all these months, I’ve held her nearly constantly, and I freely admit that was in part to make sure she never learned to do anything that the other little rats who live here went and learned to do. Because, [...]

After a lot of dithering…

I decided to post a few links here. Some of them hit very, very close to home for me for reasons that many of you already know. My decision to post this was painful because posting this means acknowledging not only the abuse I endured but the abuse I’ve doled out to my own family [...]

How cute can this kid get?

Just when I’m sure Tricia’s Cute Factor has maxed out, she looks like this.

I know. I can’t believe she’s mine, either.